ANGLO-EGYPTIAN TREATY.

Press, Volume LXV, Issue 19803, 16 December 1929, Page 15

ANGLO-EGYPTIAN TREATY.

PROPOSALS DISCUSSED. COMMENT BY "THE TIMES." (BRITISH OffltUl WIRELESS.) (Received December 14th, 5.5 p.m.) RUGBY, Dccembr-r 14. -in regard to the proposals for the Anglo-Egypria-. Trmtv which were discussed in the House of Lord* or. Wednesday. -The Times," ix, a article, 8 ,.y 5: ««r ritil . s of the proved Treaty should be ,-.. assaref ] bv Lord | fhomson's statement that if nil re- | spoil si bility for law rmd order hud passed wholcly into the hands of the I Egyptian Government, and the lives and property of foreigners were jeopardised by neglect of that Government, then they would have contravened the Treaty, and the British Government itself would be obliged to ensure that the dispensations of the Treaty were properly carried out. "It must be read in conjunction with Lord Thomson's other definite announcement that the whole of the paragraph in the 1922 Declaration in regard to foreign intervention stood without modification. The special relationship between Great Britain and Egypt is therefore not to be called into <|uestion, and it is established beyond fill doubt that his Majesty's Government will continue to regard as an unfriendly act any attempt at interference in the affairs of Egypt by another Power.'' "The Times" welcomes Lord Grey's deprecation of Lord Lloyd's "false and mischievous analogy between Egypt and India," and adds "It is a simple fact that the Egyptian policy of Mr Mac Donald's Administration is in the direct line of descent from that of his predecessor. There, ure certain obvious points in the draft Treaty to which exception can rightly be taken, and others on which judgment must be suspended, but in a general way the new Treaty represents an attempt to establish Anglo-Egyptian relations upon terms foreshadowed long ago by Lord Cromer, and after the war strongly recommended by the Milner Mission."